I eventually plan to buy a 2nd NUC and a Synology NAS but I wanted to get started on my build so I bought one just to get going. I chose the NUC for it’s low power consumption and compact size. I have a 5th Generation NUC as my home desktop and have been happy with it up to this point so I thought I’d try it out as a lab device.

I originally planned to use an SD card as my boot device but much like fgrehl over at virten.net I have not been successful up to this point so I’m switching over to a USB flash drive.

I’ll be documenting my findings, frustrations and everything else here on the blog.